Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] write option roms in pc-bios/

[Aurelien Jarno]

Paolo Bonzini a écrit :
> On 01/08/2010 08:57 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> Paolo Bonzini a écrit :
>>> On 01/07/2010 09:03 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>> This will wreak havoc on the tree since these are built by default and
>>>> they are replacing files in revision control.
>>> ... the next question is why are they (linuxboot.bin and multiboot.bin)
>>> in revision control since they do not require any strange tool to be built.
>> They require an i386 cross compiler, which is not available on all
>> installations.
> 
> They are being built always anyway now, since their target 
> pc-bios/optionrom/linuxboot.bin does not exist on a checked out tree or 
> even a release tree.  But no one has complained.

They are only built on i386 and x86_64 hosts, look at the configure
script. We should continue providing all the ROM binaries, even the x86
ones. We can't require that every installation has a (cross-)compiler
for x86, the same way that we don't require a sparc or powerpc cross
compiler for x86 installations.

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